Saturday, December 31, 2016

Amazon Studios adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel, The Man in the High Castle, presents us with an alternate history where the Axis powers of Germany and Japan won World War II and now split the rule of America in the 1960s in an uneasy alliance.

Original costumes from The Man in the High Castle

These costumes from the original scripted series were photographed on display at Downtown L.A.'s FIDM Museum on August 9, 2016. Audrey Fisher is the Costumer Designer responsible with creating the look of these alternate worlds of Nazi New York and Japanese-influenced San Francisco, with help from Assistant Costume Designer Koreen Heaver and Costume Supervisor Carole Griffin.

The Man in the High Castle TV billboard

In the show Rufus Sewell plays American SS Obergruppenführer 'John Smith', a family man in charge of keeping the Reich's hold on the East Coast and rooting out the resistance.

SS Obergruppenführer costume worn by Rufus Sewell

in The Man in the High Castle

Alexa Davalos plays 'Juliana Crain', a San Francisco woman living in the Japanese ruled West Coast of America who becomes embroiled in the resistance when her half-sister gives her a mysterious newsreel film and is promptly killed by the Kempeitai, the military police.

Juliana Crain costumes worn by Alexa Davalos

in The Man in the High Castle

Owing it to her sister to deliver the film to The Man in the High Castle, which impossibly shows footage of the Allies winning WII, she meets Luke Kleintank's 'Joe Blake' on her travels (a secret SS double agent working with the resistance).

Friday, December 23, 2016

This holiday season the video game franchise Assassin's Creed is adapted for the big screen to provide an action adventure alternative to family movies this Christmas. Michael Fassbender stars as a descendant of an assassin from the time of the Spanish Inquisition who unlocks his genetic skills and memories in the modern day through the power of the Animus Project technology.

Original Assassin's Creed film costumes and props

This cool collection of costumes and props from the movie were photographed on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema on December 13, 2016.

Thursday, December 22, 2016

In recent years Disney has successfully translated some of its animated classics to the big screen with Cinderella, Maleficent and The Jungle Book, and next it's the turn of Beauty and the Beast to get the live-action fairytale reimagining with Emma Watson playing 'Belle' who falls in love with and rescues Dan Stevens cursed prince 'Beast'.

In addition to the human character costumes this exhibit at ArcLight Pasadena cinema on December 21, 2016, also had their prop counterparts, with Sarah Greenwood being Production Designer of the lavish sets and look of this live-action spectacle.

Lumière costume worn by Ewan McGregorin Beauty and the Beast

In the live-action movie Ewan McGregor voices the friendly CGI candelabra servant of the enchanted Beast who was once human and was similarly cursed.